Posted on 10/31/2005 6:55:29 PM PST by DoctorZIn
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Iran's President Solution to Stock Market Slide: "Hang two or three people"
Iran Focus
Tehran, Oct. 30 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the latest cabinet meeting in the Iranian capital that “if we were permitted to hang two or three persons, the problems with the stock exchange would be solved for ever”, according to a Tehran-based newspaper.
Ahmadinejad was addressing a cabinet meeting held to discuss the rapidly deteriorating situation at the Tehran Stock Exchange, the daily Ruznet reported on Sunday.
Ministers and experts disagreed with all the different views and proposals raised at the meeting, which came to an end without any concrete results. Tempers flew high and participants shouted at each other during the discussion, according to the daily. Frustrated with the inability of his economic advisers and experts to come up with any solution, Ahmadinejad told them that the only way out of the current stock exchange and financial market problems was to “frighten” speculators by hanging two or three of them.
Iran’s ultra-Islamist President first sent jitters through the country’s markets when he said on the eve of the presidential elections in June that “stock exchange activities are a kind of gambling and we are against them”. Gambling is banned in Islam.
Nervous investors have been transferring their capital to other countries, and Dubai has benefited palpably from the flight of capital from Iran. The Tehran Stock Exchange has lost 20 percent of its value in the past four months.
“At the moment there are no buyers in this market, only sellers”, the newspaper Ruznet wrote. “Economists believe the situation is becoming more difficult to handle day by day”.
Incendiary statements by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other top Iranian officials have contributed to the creation of an atmosphere of uncertainty and instability in the country’s financial markets, according to analysts.
And finally, A Cartoon and a bit of Satire.
- Rooz Online reported on Ahmadinejad's “senior advisor” who wields extreme influence in everything, Mojtaba Somreh Hashemi, a close friend of Mesbah Yazdi. He is not making a lot of friends.
- Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, sees the two faces of Ahmadinejad: an English and a Persian version of his website.
- Iranian blogger, Farid Pouya, WebGardian said that the Iranian people don't hate Israel (many of them). Many believe Israel can be considered as a friend. Many say Israel never invaded us but Arabs did.
- Iranian blogger, Sheema Kalbasi, Zaneirani said that the main difference between Khatamist charlatanism and Ahmadinejad's extremism should be sought not in ideology but in their honesty about the true nature of the regime.
- Islamic Republic News Agency reported that Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel said on Sunday that Israel is the symbol of disrespect for the United Nations.
- Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post asked should Iranian President Ahmadinejad be voted the most Valuable Politician of the year? He reminds a distracted world of the true nature of Iran's regime.
- Telegraph UK reported that the United Nations is holding talks on how to deal with Iran.
- Yahoo News reported that Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted that his controversial call for Israel to be "wiped off the map" was nothing new.
- Ha'aretz reported that Israel on Sunday slammed plans by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to visit Iran.
- Dow Jones Newswires reported that U.K. Defense Secretary John Reid said: Iran appeared to be trying to confront the international community.
- JTA reported on a campaign by Berlin-based activists has resulted in the erasure of "Al Quds Day" from some interfaith calendars in the United States and United Kingdom.
- Rooz Online published a cartoon: Ahmadinejad is doing an incredible job.
- Scott Ott, ScrappleFace - UN Debates Meaning of 'Wipe' Israel from Map (humor).
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Watch out folks! They're going broke.
When that pocketbook starts to hurt badly enough, look out for (at the minimum) North Korean style brinksmanship regarding nukes, or the start of another nice, hot war.
Maybe in about 10 years when the Iraqis vote themselves a Shiite theocracy and join with the Iranians, we could be in for some real trouble.
Ahmadinejad is a dangerous man.
Good evening.
Let me try this...
"if we were permitted to hang two or three [democRATs/liberals/socialists], the problems with the War on Terror would be solved for ever."
Sorry I'm a little off topic.
5.56mm
Maybe it would work if the first one hanging from the end of the rope is the president of Iran himself!
"But innovation is about the destruction of old methods"...so Allah says.
Don't think that Allah isn't about to transform himself into the god of consumerism."
Mohammed is an idiot. The Allah of Islam isn't.
Allah will soon show his true colors. The Allah of Islam is not just the god of violence. He (Allah) is also the god of greed.
He is not the god of productivity. Allah is the god of "show me the money."
Allah is the god that takes what is earned by others.
Good ole allah...He is evil personified.
If you don't think so...worship him...or the nothingness he represents...and see what you end up with.
How funny!
Sounds like the Dem party answer/attitude to capitalisim.
By then Iran will be a democracy. Not much chance of them merging.
Why would they hang them - I thought it was their style to behead them instead.
Ahmadinejad told them that the only way out of the current stock exchange and financial market problems was to “frighten” speculators by hanging two or three of them.
Unreal!
Well it is ecologically sound, we could reuse the rope.
How long would Ahmadinejad and his pack of rats last if all of a sudden Iranian crude oil was no longer flowing and earning billions in profits?
Sounds like the DNC is advising this mass murdering thug on what to say.
"Iran’s ultra-Islamist President first sent jitters through the country’s markets when he said on the eve of the presidential elections in June that “stock exchange activities are a kind of gambling and we are against them”. Gambling is banned in Islam.
Nervous investors have been transferring their capital to other countries, and Dubai has benefited palpably from the flight of capital from Iran. The Tehran Stock Exchange has lost 20 percent of its value in the past four months.
“At the moment there are no buyers in this market, only sellers”, the newspaper Ruznet wrote. “Economists believe the situation is becoming more difficult to handle day by day”."
The Iranian leader thug is correct. A few Iranians like himself need to be killed to correct the Iranian stock market loss problem.
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